Q. I'd like to start with your impression of the atmosphere at Croke Park for the first NFL regular season game in Ireland. How did it compare to a regular season game in the United States?

A. It was special, for lack of a better description, on a lot of fronts. First of all, I was amazed at what a horizontal city Dublin is. You know, I kept expecting to come into downtown Dublin and see some skyscrapers and so forth. The stadium was the biggest thing in sight. And the number of fans just along the sidewalk and in the pubs and so forth was impressive. The closer you got to the stadium, there were probably just as many people outside the stadium all day as inside the stadium. It was an unbelievable environment. And within the stadium, just their level of engagement at everything all game w

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